Telcoflash: Telecom Market News

Reliance (India) is still hungry and tries to expand abroad. In a new attempt to go out of India, Reliance is bidding for national fixed wireless services (NFWS) licenses in Bahrain (with 10 other bidders). Are Apple and Disney working together in mobile?...

Lebanon will be the first country in the Middle East to deploy pre- 802.20 mobile WiMAX (a competitor of 802.16e pre-mobile WiMAX). Telenet and UPC Belgium have confirmed plans to merge. Telenet will buy UPC Belgium for €187m in cash. Combined, they will...

Warid Telecom has been granted a one-year mobile licence in Uganda. Vodafone Malta will launch HSDPA services this month. Vodafone Italy is authorized to trial its new mobile service (transfer fixed-line number to their mobile phones) temporarily for...

43% of Irish households have an internet connection, of which 42% are ADSL and 39% use dial-up connections. Orascom Telecom has surpassed the 50m subscriber mark. India exceeds now 100m GSM subscribers. Ukraine' subscriber base reached 44m as of November...

Safran' s chairman and CEO, respectively Mario Colaiacovo and Jean-Paul Bechat, are leaving the company. Francis Mer, former France' s finance minister, will become Chairman. Hilary Mine has been named head of Alcatel-Lucent’ s Australasia regional unit....

From the beginning, WCDMA was synonym of new frequencies and related new licenses, new infrastructure to be deployed. During the week, a series of announcement has shadowed what was believed as the truth. Siemens has unveiled one base station that can...

After a period of intense activity, in early 2006, to predict when China can grant 3G licenses, it was very quiet for several months. Rumors are again surfacing, with the announcement made by Wang Xudong, the head of China's telecoms regulator (MII):...

The Russian holding group Alfa and its telecom arm Altimo have made clear that they are seeking telecom partners to expand operations beyond the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). The followed strategy is triple: enter more lucrative markets, gained...

Ericsson and the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK) have launched a trial of personalized mobile TV advertising. Customizedg marketing will be used with mobile TV viewers; advertisements will be interactive, customized to ensure their relevance...

Telcoflash reported several times of the big BSNL GSM tender worth some $4bn for 45m mobile lines + 15 m lines attributed under special quota rules, but if you think I am again talking about it, you are wrong. This week, Reliance (another major mobile...